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1 online resource (720 pages) |
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""Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the HUMID TROPICS""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""FINDINGS""; ""LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT: A GLOBAL REQUIREMENT""; ""THE HUMID TROPICS""; ""Forest Conversion""; ""CAUSES OF FOREST CONVERSION""; ""CONSEQUENCES OF FOREST CONVERSION""; ""Agriculture in the Humid Tropics""; ""Adopting an Integrated Approach to Land Use""; ""SUSTAINABLE LAND USE OPTIONS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Technical Research Needs""; ""DOCUMENTATION OF LAND USE SYSTEMS""; ""INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE""; ""MONITORING"" |
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""Policy Strategies""""POLICY REVIEWS""; ""GLOBAL EQUITY""; ""Supporting Sustainable Agriculture""; ""CREATION OF AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT""; ""INCENTIVES""; ""PARTNERSHIPS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""PART ONE""; ""1 Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics""; ""THE HUMID TROPICS""; ""FOREST CHARACTERISTICS AND BENEFITS""; ""Local and Global Climatic Interactions""; ""Biological Diversity""; ""Products and Commodities""; ""Nutrient Cycling""; ""Protection of Soils""; ""Stabilization of Hydrological Systems""; ""Water Availability and Quality""; ""Mitigation of Storm Impacts"" |
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""CONVERSION OF HUMID TROPIC FORESTS""""Deforestation Rates Within Regions of the Humid Tropics""; ""Causes of Forest Conversion""; ""Historical Patterns of Forest Conversion""; ""Consequences of Forest Conversion""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES""; ""SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES""; ""ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES""; ""SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE HUMID TROPICS""; ""Constraints on Agricultural Productivity""; ""CLIMATE""; ""SOILS""; ""BIOLOGICAL FACTORS""; ""The Path to Sustainable Agriculture""; ""THE NEED FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH""; ""MOVING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY""; ""2 Sustainable Land Use Options"" |
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""INTENSIVE CROPPING SYSTEMS""""The Development of Intensive Agriculture""; ""Programs and Research Activities""; ""Implications for Forest Boundary Stabilization""; ""SHIFTING CULTIVATION""; ""Stabilization Guidelines""; ""Managed Fallows and Forests in Mexico: An Example""; ""Low-Input Cropping: A Transition Technology""; ""AGROPASTORAL SYSTEMS""; ""Features and Benefits of Agropastoral Farms""; ""Requirements for Greater Sustainability""; ""CATTLE RANCHING""; ""Cattle Pastureland in Asia""; ""Cattle Pastureland in Africa""; ""Cattle Pastureland in Latin America"" |
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""Pasture Degradation: A Common Feature""""Reclamation of Degraded Pasture on Deforested Lands""; ""The Appropriate Pasture Technology for Sustainability""; ""AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS""; ""Types of Traditional Agroforestry Systems in the Humid Tropics""; ""Improved Agroforestry Systems""; ""IMPROVED TREES AND WOODY SHRUBS""; ""ARRANGEMENT OF TREES, CROPS, AND LIVESTOCK""; ""Advantages and Disadvantages of Agroforestry""; ""Research Priorities""; ""MIXED TREE SYSTEMS""; ""Past and Present Forest Management""; ""Mixed Tree Systems Throughout the World"" |
| Notes |
""The Role of Mixed Tree Systems in Tropical Forest Conservation"" |
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Agricultural systems -- Tropics
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Sustainable agriculture -- Tropics
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Land use, Rural -- Tropics
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Agricultural ecology -- Tropics
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Agricultural ecology
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Agricultural systems
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Land use, Rural
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Sustainable agriculture
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Tropics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309588409 |
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0309588405 |
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